---
title: 'Arise, My Love (1940)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Mitchell Leisen'
released: '1940-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 113
genres:
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/arise-my-love-1940'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032220/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Arise, My Love (1940)

1940 · 113 min · Romance · United States


## Synopsis

Arise, My Love is a 1940 American romantic comedy film directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland and Dennis O'Keefe. It was made by Paramount Pictures and written by Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett and Jacques Théry. Containing an interventionist message, it tells the love story of a pilot and a journalist who meet in the latter days of the Spanish Civil War and follows them through the early days of World War II. Colbert once said that Arise, My Love was her personal favorite motion picture of all the films she had made.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Mitchell Leisen](https://cinepixo.com/people/mitchell-leisen)
- **Screenplay:** [Billy Wilder](https://cinepixo.com/people/billy-wilder), [Charles Brackett](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-brackett)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Victor Young](https://cinepixo.com/people/victor-young)
- **Producer:** [Arthur Hornblow, Jr.](https://cinepixo.com/people/arthur-hornblow-jr)
- **Director of Photography:** [Charles Lang](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-lang)
- **Editor:** [Doane Harrison](https://cinepixo.com/people/doane-harrison)

## Cast

- [Claudette Colbert](https://cinepixo.com/people/claudette-colbert)
- [Kurt Kreuger](https://cinepixo.com/people/kurt-kreuger)
- [Douglas Kennedy](https://cinepixo.com/people/douglas-kennedy)
- [Lionel Pape](https://cinepixo.com/people/lionel-pape)
- [Dick Purcell](https://cinepixo.com/people/dick-purcell)
- [Jean De Briac](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-de-briac)
- [Aubrey Mather](https://cinepixo.com/people/aubrey-mather)
- [George Zucco](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-zucco)
- [Esther Dale](https://cinepixo.com/people/esther-dale)
- [Ray Milland](https://cinepixo.com/people/ray-milland)
- [Frank Puglia](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-puglia)
- [Dennis O'Keefe](https://cinepixo.com/people/dennis-o-keefe)
- [Walter Abel](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-abel)
- [Rudolph Anders](https://cinepixo.com/people/rudolph-anders)
- [Ann Codee](https://cinepixo.com/people/ann-codee)

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